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...four plots don't make us feel any better. They just help us begin to appreciate the gratitude we owe the folks at ABC--the pacesetters in the cutesy trash industry. Sunday Lovers' separate scenarios--each written and directed by a different person--so completely rely on television and porno flicks that we are not surprised when the producers fall back on cliched trick endings to escape from beneath the mountain of one-liners they have created. Instead of thinking, "My, wasn't that a hair-brained half-hour, completely devoid of artistic merit," we are supposed...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...copying the from of typical situation comedies and pornographic films, Sunday Lovers totally lacks the substance of either. It could never be a plece of art, but if it had only replaced the fireworks of Love American Style with explicit sex, it might at least have been a bearable porno flick instead of a tiresome...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...declaration of affection that might otherwise be offered with chrysanthemums. Shelly Anderson, who with Sandye Dianto started the Balloon Express Co. in Los Angeles last May, specializes in hand-painted balloons depicting rainbows, birthday cakes and people's names-even "dirty pictures." One blue batch was decorated with "porno stuff' and delivered with a nude male clown to a woman's "stagette" party. Another Los Angeles company, the Red Balloon, has a lot of requests for black numbers inscribed with messages like I HATE YOU or I DON'T LOVE YOU ANY MORE. In Hollyweird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Balloonacy Blooms and Booms | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...revolver who was threatening to blow Ramos' brains out because he had thrown a snowball. "By then," he says, "I knew that if you're no good in school or in sports, there's nothing left to do around here but pimp, hustle dope, act in porno movies and, yeah, steal. Everybody's gotta live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Bronx: Campe | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...collect gambling debts and gave unorthodox religious instructions to his son: "There are ten commandments. Right? Well, it's like an exam. I mean, you get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class." Mother Shapiro is a former stripper and late-blooming porno actress who pops the eyes of Joshua's adolescent friends with a fan dance at her son's bar mitzvah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: St. Urbain Street Revisited | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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